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Phase 8 · ORMs & Query Builders

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What is an ORM

Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.

Summary

Object-Relational Mapping — a library that lets you interact with your database using your programming language's objects/classes instead of writing raw SQL by hand.

How to Learn This

  • 1Compare the same query written in raw SQL versus an ORM's query API.
  • 2List the trade-offs: ORMs speed up development but can hide what's actually happening in the database.
  • 3Learn that understanding raw SQL first makes you far better at using any ORM.

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